found: Northwestern University Archives finding aid, Edmund Janes James Papers(Edmund Janes James, Northwestern University's thirteenth president (1902-1904), was the son of a Methodist clergyman in Jacksonville, Ill. He was born on May 21, 1855, and attended Northwestern University for one year (1873) before finishing his undergraduate education at Harvard; he then attended the University of Halle, in Germany, to study historical economics, receiving his doctorate in 1877. By 1883 James had joined the Business faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as professor of public finance and administration, taking on the directorship of the Wharton School of Finance. In 1893 he accepted an appointment at the new University of Chicago, as professor of public administration and as director of Pennsylvania's extension program there. It was from there that he accepted the presidency of Northwestern University in early 1902 ... founder of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; one of the organizers of the American Economic Association; first president of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching in 1891; in 1904 James accepted the offer of the presidency of the University of Illinois, resigned in 1920; died at his sister's home in Covina, California, on June 17, 1925)

found: Instruction in political and social science, 1885?:t.p. (Prof. E.J. James)